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2024

• April 19 - May 5  Ken Ludwig's Baskerville  at the Garfield Center for the Arts in Chestertown MD (about 1.5 hours from DC on the Eastern Shore). One of Ken's best Sherlockian scripts, always worth a look or a second look! Info is here.
• April 26 - May 9  Miss Holmes  A new play at the Fells Point Corner Theater in Maryland features the adventures of Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson. What added obstacles are faced when the detective and the doctor are women in Victorian times? Tickets are here.
• May 3 - 5  Capital Rare Book Fair  at Washington's University Club. Information is here.
• June 22  Red Circle Luncheon Meeting
• November 16  A Saturday with Sherlock Holmes  The 45th annual edition of this staple of the Sherlockian calender will once again grace the auditorium at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Save the date and watch this space for details.

2025

• January 15 -- 18  Sherlock Holmes Birthday Weekend  As always, January will feature the longest "weekend" on the Sherlockain calendar, with legions of the devoted descending on midtown Manhattan to celebrate. The annual dinner of the Baker Street Iregulars--the sole invitation-only event of the weekend--will be held on Friday, January 17. We'll alert you to the many other events which are cordially open to all as information becomes available.

For a much more comprehensive list of Sherlockian meetings and events around the United States and beyond, see Ron Fish's

Sherlockian Calendar.

The Slavering Hound by Frederick Dorr Steele is an unpublished drawing for the 1939 Basil Rathbone Hound of the Baskervilles film. It was shown in the program for the film and featured in the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition 

Burt Wolder to examine Conan Doyle's "Adventurous Life" at June Red Circle luncheon   The Red Circle is proud to welcome Burt Wolder, BSI, to our June 22 luncheon meeting. Burt's special presentation is entitled "Arthur Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories." In 1929, Sir Arthur survived a heart attack, but but it left him weakened. Shortly before his death the next year, he looked back upon his life and drew a cartoon to represent it. He depicted himself as "The Old Horse," cared for by three vets. The old horse has walked a long path, and pulls a wagon loaded with memories. Burt will unpack the boxes on the wagon, and share with us the richness of Conan Doyle's life--a life well lived. Burt Wolder  (“Third Pillar from the Left” in the Baker Street Irregulars) is an editor and co-host of "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere," the first podcast for Sherlock Holmes devotees, and "Trifles," a weekly podcast focused on the Canon. In 2020 he helped raise funds for a grave marker in memory of Frederic Dorr Steele and now serves on the board of Frederic Dorr Steele Memorial, Inc., a non-profit organization that promotes public awareness of Steele’s life and work, supports related exhibits and collections, and maintains the marker on the artist’s grave in Menands, New York. The location and cost for the luncheon will be posted shortly. Save the date and watch this space.

Video now available of Curtis Armstrong's presentation of "The "B" List"  The Red Circle's March 16 meeting featured a delightful presentation by the BSI's "actor and a rare one," aka Curtis Armstrong. Curtis guided us on a tour of the Canon's lesser villains, punctuated by irony, smiles and guffaws. Thanks to Matt Hall, it was all recorded, and you can watch it just by clicking the screen at the right.

And you can read Carla Coupe's Meeting Notes here. 

Crimes and their Times  Did The Red Circle's namesake adventure take place in 1885 or in 1903? Or sometime in between? There's no subject in the world of Sherlock Holmes that generates more spirited debate than the chronology of the Canon. Timeline detectives have spent decades mining the fine details of each story for clues to their dates, yet consensus has proven chronically elusive. Brad Keefauver presides over the Sherlockian Chronologist Guild, an on-line society that publishes a monthly journal, Timeline. Two articles in the June 2022 issue examine "The Red Circle," where you can see just how complicated Sherlockian chronology can be. You're invited to read the issue for yourself here. And if you'd like to receive the journal regularly, just email Brad here.  3/2/24 AR

Can it possibly be 40 years?  It seems like yesterday that Jeremy Brett burst onto our TV screens as a Sherlock Holmes for the ages. . .a fine actor appearing in scripts that are notoriously faithful to the Canon. May 25 marked the date for a one-day 40th anniversary celebration of Brett's turn in Granada's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Dubbed Brettcon, it happened in Guildford, Surry, and is the brainchild of Gus and Luke Holwerda, proprietors of the 40+ episode podcast called--what else?--Sherlock Podcast. Whether or not you listen to the podcasts, and whether or not you made it across the pond for the doings in May, you'll want to spend two minutes with the lovely trailer Gus and Luke have put together for the event. Watch it here. 2/27/24 AR

Red Circle Pins Available  The pin has been proudly worn all over the Sherlockian world, from Rockville to the Reichenbach, so Red Circle members (which includes everyone who's ever been to a meeting) will treasure having their own. The price is $14.95 each, which includes shipping anywhere. Send an email to Tom Fahres to order.

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